![]() That was the final straw, I traded it in & acted like I didn’t know it was leaking when they looked at it & I went way upside down to get into a new truck. If I parked and let it run, the puddle would be tire to tire in a matter of minutes. The leak had gotten so bad that if you were within 20 feet of the vehicle you could smell straight gasoline. And the closest dealership was a 5 Hour Drive away. Then I really couldn’t find anybody that would even touch the vehicle. It got so bad that I could smell it coming through my Vents going down the road. Upon investigation I realized I was now leaking fuel. The only reason I noticed was because this parking lot was brand new and there were no other puddles or marks on the entire thing. Until I sat in a parking lot for lunch one day for about 45 minutes when I drove off I saw a 2 foot in diameter puddle where I had been parked. I did some reading and they said there’s an atmosphere valve on top of the fuel tank to depressurize and regulate the tank pressure, so I thought maybe that was the cause of the smell. I could smell fuel every time I got out of the vehicle, whether I shut it off or left it running to get one of the kids in or out or something, always smelled gas. After about eight months and only about 10-12k miles. There were times where this took up to five minutes of me sitting in the car with all the lights flashing because I kept having to hit the unlock button 100 times before it would turn on. So to start the car with a weak key fob I had to hold it by the steering wheel, and constantly mash the unlock button while simultaneously hitting the start button on the vehicle and just praying that the signals would catch each other at the same time and start the engine. It could not detect the key fob Unless I was hitting the unlock button. Then the battery died & When this happens there is a certain place you have to hold the key fob so the vehicle can read it while you push the start button. After learning that it was about $900 to replace it, I just tightly taped the damn thing together. ![]() I took great care of it but the thing started falling apart. When I bought the vehicle it only came with one key fob. Then the back window wiper broke mid use & fell below the window and scratched up the back door which was incredibly embarrassing because I was driving a “badass” Range Rover around that had a broken back wiper that hung down like a sad puppy dog tail until I could rig it to sit back in place but remained nonfunctional. I had to pull over in the rain and yank it out from where the bottom part was connected under the hood by some foam. Before I had ordered a replacement I was driving to work again about a week later in a pretty heavy rain storm and all of a sudden the plastic cover gets completely ripped off breaking all of the remaining snapping brackets and is now flailing around and slapping my mirror going down the road. I realized it had broken the top plastic snapping bracket that holds the plastic cover in place. Then I noticed the plastic shield that covers the a pillar and fills the gap between the windshield and the door started micro-flapping in the wind every time I got over about 60 mph. Driving to work one day I hit what I guess was a bird or maybe a small tree branch on the top passenger side corner of the windshield. I found one shop that would work on them, but they did not have the right adapter to resurface my break disks so I had to replace them at a much higher cost than just getting them turned. Which I know is regular maintenance, but we do not have a Land Rover dealership in my town and this is where I realized how few people are willing to even work on a Land Rover. The part was a few hundred bucks & I paid them about $300 in labor, all was good. After arguing with the dealership they agreed that if I paid for labor, they would replace the part since the vehicle had allegedly passed there certified used car inspection program. Turns out a plastic part of the cooling plumbing Had split at the seam. So I took it back to the dealership, which was a Volkswagen dealership, but I knew the mechanic that runs their shop and he is very familiar With high end & import vehicles. Next two days when I would shut it off and get out of the vehicle I would smell coolant, and sure enough the low coolant light came back on. I thought, no big deal, went and picked up some dexcool & filled it up. ![]() I got it home and the low coolant light came on. It was and still is to this day the smoothest riding vehicle I’ve ever driven. I was super hesitant to buy it just outside of factory warranty but driving it I fell in love. ![]()
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